- What rooms to start at
Be sure to join in on a limit game, and stay far away from the no limit games until you really have got the skill of reading the opponents hands and how to be betting at what time.
To start playing in such rooms will help you to gain a few new skills;
First of all how the software and betting rounds work.
Next to see what cards people might have gained from the flop, river and turn and how their betting pattern changes.
Last to get to know how your playing against other people will work out, and if you have the right skill, patience and discipline necessary to make a winning in a poker game.
Do not believe that this will tell you everything that you need to know though!
First of all; In the fun rooms and in the real money lower rooms there is a lot of betting and raising going on which will make it very hard to read the opponents cards.
This makes it on the one hand harder to see what cards the different players have got while on the other hand it should create a better balance money wise by winning larger pots by playing only some very selective hands.
As soon as you can handle the fun money places OK and see that your profit rises you should go to the real money lowest levels of a hold'em limit table, since this playing pattern will be very similar to the fun money tables you've just been at.
Another level though, which is a lot more accurate, is at a $0,25 and $0,50 Holdem limit table. Here you will find that it is by far more easy to read what cards the players are betting hard on or not and you will find a lot of very tight players sometimes mixed with a few loose players.
If you can manage to follow the above advice for the most part then you also should manage to make a profit at this level.
The least you should bring in at this level is $25 and if you lose all of it then there are several pieces of advice given on this page that you have not been following properly. You will do things differently than I have described here, we both know that, but the more of my advice you choose not to follow and the more often it happens the more money you will hand over to the other players at the table.
And in that case I hope that I will see you there! :-)
Stay away from any no-limit table and any stack higher than the $0,25 and $0,50 tables.
The reason for this is that the playing style is quite different in such places, and the skills of the players is by far better than yours. You are almost doomed to die in these rooms. Play where you can stand a chance!
Your best chance is at a full 10-man table with a few loose players and a lot of tight players already in. If you sit and watch the game for maybe 30 minutes or an hour before joining in you should have learned something of their playing pattern and be able to enter with a great chance of winning a few rounds.
When you have been practising for a while you could also try a few tournaments out there. This demands a totally different playing style and you will no doubt need to read some accurate information on this special issue.
After playing in limit tables and having gained about 250 hours experience and managed to make a growing profit in these kind of rooms, then it will be the right time to take your experience into the no limit tables.
It is here you will have to adjust your previous experiences into the new kind of playing style, but simultaneously to keep your very tight to tight-aggressive way of playing as a standard until you have learned the different playing style on such tables. After a few good winning rounds your blinds will become pretty small to pay compared to your income, and this will make you able to play a few more cards from the start as long as the blinds is not raised later on during the first betting round.
The no limit tables are also where you will make the most money, and your previous experience from the limit tables will be the major reason for being able to do so from the very beginning.
I can not tell you all the details of odds and rights or wrongs to this or that situation, that takes a lifetime of experience and reading to learn, but by following these guidelines your start at the real money poker table should be going far smoother than my own start did.
More information:
PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE
POSITION, POSITION, POSITION
THE BETTING STYLE OF OTHER PLAYERS
THE PLAYING STYLE OF OTHER PLAYERS
THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE POT
YOUR OWN STARTING HAND
THE FLOP
THE TURN AND RIVER
When to CHECK, CALL, BET, RAISE or FOLD
Where to play and why
What rooms to start at
How to get your money
The Final Note
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